#Yakkha

[linguisticillustrations]

The alignment of individual person/number markers used on Yakkha verbs. It took me a little while to work out how to read the table; each square is subdivided into nine smaller squares based on the number of the agent and the patient, with top middle bottom corresponding to singular, dual, and plural agent, and left middle right corresponding to singular, dual, and plural patient, respectively. Grey shading indicates the marker would be used there. In the bottom right table, the dark grey is for =na, and the light grey for =ha.

Source: Schackow, Diana. 2015. A grammar of Yakkha. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.17169/langsci.b66.12 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/66

[mahayanapilgrim]

The story of the young weaver - 01

Dhammapada contains 423 verses said by the Buddha in different contexts. Most of the verses have been taken from the discourses of the Buddha. It has been noted that more than two thirds of the verses are taken from the discourses contained in the two collections of the Buddha's discourses known as the Samyutta Nikaya and Anguttara Nikaya. The 423 verses are divided into 26 chapters each with a particular heading. The thirteenth chapter is named "Loka vagga" meaning the chapter on

"the World", which contains 12 verses said by the Buddha.

The back ground story to the 8th verse of the Loka vagga is about a weaver girl who used to practise reflection of death after listening to a sermon from the Buddha.

At one time, the Buddha was staying in Alavi at the Aggalava shrine. The country of Alavi was located between Savatti of Kosala and Rajagaha of Magadha in ancient India. The town of Alavi became well known in the Buddhist literature as Alavaka the Yakkha who is mentioned in the Alava sutta and one of the Buddha's chief male disciples known as Hatthaka Alavaka used to live there.

While staying in the town, the Buddha was delivering a sermon where, the Buddha was describing the impermanence of the five aggregates of clinging that a person is made of and advising the disciples to reflect on impermanence and inevitable death as follows:

My life is uncertain,

My death is certain,

I must certainly die,

My life ends in death,

Life is uncertain,

Death is certain.

The Buddha also stated: "Just like one who is armed with a stick or a spear meets with a poisonous snake, one should always be mindful of death so that one will face one's death mindfully. He will then leave this world to be born at a good destination."

Most of the audience did not heed to the Buddha's advice but there was a sixteen year girl in the audience who happened to be the daughter of a weaver. She understood the Buddha's message on uncertainty of life and the certainty of death and decided to practise reflection on death regularly. She continuously contemplated on what the Buddha taught for three years.

[sendandburn]

Ideas for Hp ship names

Hi guys. So, normally i would be doing yet another mute & block/follow list but, i've noticed that there are a shit ton of yet unnamed ships (both problematic & not) in this fandom so i decided to propose some names for them, startin with the non Problematic ones:

Heat:

Angelotter: the ship between Angelina Johnson and Harry Potter

Reason for the name: its her name and his last name

Jarlene : The ship between James Potter and Marlene McKinnon.

Reason for the name: its their names

Prince's Bones: Severus Snape and Amélia Bones

Reason for the name: it's his mom's last name and her last name... Plus it makes it sound like she belongs to him.

Severlene: Severus Snape and Marlene McKinnon

Reason for the name: it's their names

PaddyPet: Sirius black and Petunia Evans Dursley

Reason for the name: it's both of their nicknames combined

Maregulus:Mary Macdonald and Regulus Black

Reason for the name: it's their names combined

Prince's Pet: Severus Snape and Petunia Evans Dursley

Reson for the name: it's his mom's last name and her nickname.

Femslash:

Chhaang and Gin- the ship between Ginny Weasley and Cho Chang

Reason for the name:

"Chhaang or chhyang (Tibetan: ཆང་, Wylie: chang, Nepali: छ्याङ, Newar: थो:) is a Nepalese and Tibetan alcoholic beverage also popular in parts of the eastern Himalayas, Yakkha, Limbu, Dura, Newar, Sunuwar, Rai, Gurung, Magar, Sherpa, Tamang and Lepcha communities. " (from Wikipedia) & " Gin (/dʒɪn/) is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its flavour from juniper berries and other botanical ingredients." (from Wikipedia). It also happens that Ginny can be shortened to Gin and Chhaang could also be a misspelling of Cho's last name so it kinda works out.

Gin & Fleur- the ship between Ginny Weasley and Fleur Delacour

Reason for the name: it's a shortened version of Ginny's name and Fleur's name.

Slash:

Drorge- the ship between Draco Malfoy and George Weasley

Dred- the ship between Fred Weasley and Draco Malfoy

Garry-the ship between George Weasley and Harry Potter

Frarry- the ship between George Weasley and Harry Potter

Reverus - the ship between Regulus Black and Severus Snape

Poly:

JoKer Darling - The ship between George Weasley, Fred Weasley Draco Malfoy

Reason for the name : the series of ficts bellow

Chosen JoKer- the ship between George Weasley, Fred Weasley and Harry Potter

Reason for the Name: the same fict series and He is the chosen one

Joker Granger : the ship between George Weasley, Fred Weasley and Hermione Granger

Reason for the name: the same fict series and its her last name

Joker Lee: the ship between George Weasley, Fred Weasley and Lee Jordan

Reason for the name: the same series of ficts and its his name.

Dramionarry: the ship between Draco Malfoy,Harry Potter and Hermione Granger

reason: Its a combination of their ship names

Have more ideas? Leave them in the comments and i will add them to the list. Let's make these ship names official

[olharbudista]

Os dez episódios mais engraçados do Cânone Páli

O Cânone Páli não é alicerçado apenas em ensinamentos e histórias sérias, vários momentos de humor também podem ser encontrados nas antigas escrituras budistas. Ajahn Sujato compartilha os 10 episódios do Cânone Páli que considera mais engraçados. A lista de episódios divertidos inclui um yakkha a dar uma palmada na careca de Sariputta, o Brahma envergonhado por não ter a sabedoria do Buda, a…

[thaiamulets-co]

Tao Wessuwan is one of the most important gods and had actually been, and still, acquire many respect in numerous nations as the guardian of all wicked spirits. These spell, belong to the Four Guardian Gods and Tao Wessuwan is their head, was present to Buddha, as the Four Guardian Gods deem that they have to many fans, some are excellent and some are evil and may hurt wondering monks who in the middle of graveyard, deep jungle. Tao Wessuwan is a type of Yaksha, in Hinduism, Tao Wessuwan is known as Kuberan, also the Lord of all the Yaksha, a demonic race of giants. Nowadays, we still can see the 'Suad Parn Yuk' chanting ceremonial and in that ceremony you'll see the image of Tao Wessuwan install on the high place. As Tao Wessuwan had outright advantage to penalize any ghosts and devils. People believe that Tao Wessuwan's power is capable to ruin all inauspicious things, secure individuals from wicked spirits, dark magic and jinx, he also give wealth to people. Impact: Superb to Increase Fortune, Bring Prosperity, Wealthy bring, Powerful protection from black magic and cast other types of wicked forces, ghosts and spirits. Tao Wessuwan is a kind of Yaksha, in Hinduism, Tao Wessuwan is known as Kuberan, also the Lord of all the Yaksha, a demonic race of giants. In Thailand, this same Tao Wessuwan is frequently seen guarding every temples. As in Hindu comparable to Thai Buddhism, it is believe that Tao Wessuwan (even Kuberan) protects the earth concealed treasures and wealth. Hindus believe that worshiping Kuberan bestow them with wealth, abandunce and material convenience. Given that its the same divine being, this amulet can also be used for wealth and product gain. Tao Wessuwan - The demons tormentor! Tao Wessuwan is one of the most essential gods and has actually been, and still, acquire numerous respect in numerous countries as the guardian of all evil spirits. Tao Wessuwan is among the most important gods and had been, and still, acquire many respect in lots of countries as the guardian of all fiends. As we can see that ascetic masters like to make red cabalistic composing plates with his image on it and hand it over the doorway to prevent the locations from evil spirits, this is among the earliest and most comparable preventive technique. Another example is 'Suad Parn Yuk' (A Giant Enchantment Ceremony), such as the spell 'Phra Kata Parn Yuk' or the spell 'Wipudsi'. These spell, belong to the Four Guardian Gods and Tao Wessuwan is their head, existed to Buddha, as the Four Guardian Gods consider that they have to many fans, some are excellent and some are evil and may damage wondering monks who in the middle of graveyard, deep jungle. To prevent those occurrences, they 'd present these spell, 'Phra Kata Parn Yuk', to Buddha. Thao Wessuwun possessed absolute advantage to punish any ghosts and satanic forces. Therefore, individuals think that Thao Wessuwun's power is capable to damage all inauspicious things, safeguard people from fiends, dark magic and jinx, he also approve wealth to the worshippers. Katha, Mantra for Tao Wessuwan Putta Kamo Lapha Puttang Tana Kamo Laphe Tanang Atti Kaye Kaya Yayak Tewanang Piyatang Sutawa, Itipiso Phakawa Yama Rachano Tao Wessuwano Maranang Sukang Arahang Sukato Namo Puttaya, Tao Wessuwano Jatu Maha Racha Chika Yakkha Panta Pat Purito Wessa Phusa Puttang Arahang Putto Tao Wessuwano

[gemsartsjewellery]

Udhauli (उधौली) is a festival of the Kirat communities celebrated to thank mother nature for providing ample harvests every year marking the migration phase downwards towards the low-elevation regions when the winter season arrives.

[src.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udhauli]

#gemsartsjewellery#Udhauli#Parva#Kirat#community#hill#harvest#mother#nature#sunuwar#rai#limbu#yakkha#Day#Lazimpat#kathmandu#kathmanduvalley#nepal#diamonds#gold#silver#gems#ring#earring#necklace

[linghelpsite]

In today's update, we've added pages for Friulian, Moloko, Romanian and Yakkha resources, and have added resources to the Akan, Bengali, Blackfoot, Ewe, Shughni and Wakhi pages! Go here to start learning!

[safekeeperscosm]

This is probably just me, but the house(?) from the s3 intro with the dragonflies looks like a traditional chinese house. Evidence of Anne hurting Marcy in s3?

you know anon, I'm really glad you brought this up, because despite finding myself happy to live in ignorance, this might have a worse implication than your initial suggestion

here's how a Chinese temple looks like and a couple of imperial lions because I think they're neat

The concept, which originated and became popular in Chinese Buddhism, features a pair of highly stylized lions—often one male with a ball and one female with a cub—which were thought to protect the building from harmful spiritual influences and harmful people that might be a threat.

but what we're looking at is a Thai temple

The yakshas (Sanskrit: यक्ष yakṣa; Pali: yakkha) are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness. They appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, as well as ancient and medieval era temples of South Asia and Southeast Asia as guardian deities.

The yakṣa has a dual personality. On the one hand, a yakṣa may be an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains; but there is also a darker version of the yakṣa, which is a kind of ghost (bhuta) that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travellers, similar to the rakṣasas.

Yakshas (Thai: ยักษ์) are an important element in Thai temple art and architecture. They are common as guardians of the gates in Buddhist temples throughout the country since at least the 14th century. They are mostly depicted with a characteristic face, having big round bulging eyes and protruding fangs, as well as a green complexion.

my guess from this observation would be a sort of family gathering of the Boonchuys, maybe the invasion DOES start or for some reason Anne now has the ability to summon swarms of dragonflies, either way, prolly not so good

@arrow-man-tick pspspsp look at this

[yoga-onion]

Hindu Mythology & Deities

- Hindu deities (28)-

Yaksha

Yaksha (Pali 'yakkha', meaning violent evil, victorious demon, and virtue) is a demon god in Hindu mythology. It was later adopted by Buddhism and became a guardian deity of Buddhism. In Hindu mythology, Yaksha is also a generic term for demon gods, along with Asura (in Buddhism, Asura is not a generic term, but a single demon god). The yakshas are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness. They appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, as well as ancient and medieval era temples of South Asia and Southeast Asia as guardian deities.  The feminine form of the word is yakṣī or yakshini. In Buddhism, Yasha is one of the eight tribesmen who protect the Buddha-dharma and as a member of the Bishamonten (Kubera) family, he protects the north along with the Rakshasas. There are three types of yashas, Tenyasha (Yaksha of heaven), Jiyasha (Yaksha of earth, and Kokuyasha (Yaksha of air), and all except Jiyasha are said to fly.

インド神話と神様たち

−ヒンドゥー教時代からの神々(28)–

夜叉

夜叉（やしゃ、サンスクリット語のyaksaとパーリ語のyakkhaの音写で暴悪・捷疾鬼・威徳を意味する）は、古代インド神話���登場する鬼神。薬叉（やくしゃ、yaksha）とも称する。のちに仏教に取り入れられ護法善神の一尊となった。 ヒンドゥー神話では、夜叉も阿���羅（仏教では阿修羅は総称ではなく、一つの鬼神）と並んで鬼神の総称である。 夜叉は自然の精霊の総称で、通常は善意に満ちているが、時にはいたずら好きで気まぐれなこともあり、水、豊穣、樹木、森、宝、荒野に関連している。ヒンドゥー教、ジャイナ教、仏教の書物や、南アジアや東南アジアの古代・中世の寺院に守護神として登場する。 女性形では、ヤクシュキ（yakṣī）またはヤクシニ（yakshini）と呼ばれている。 仏教においては、夜叉は仏法を守護する八部衆の一つとして、また毘沙門天（クーベラ）の一族として羅刹と共に北方を守護する。また夜叉には、天夜叉・地夜叉・虚空夜叉の三種があり、地夜叉以外は飛行するという。

[historical-nonfiction]

The Mythical Birth of The Lion People

The Sinhalese people are native to Sri Lanka, speak Sinhala, are majority Theravada Buddhists, and today make up about 75% of the island's population. They also have a pretty cool origin myth. The Mahavamsa, a Sri Lankan epic from the 400s CE, tells how the Indian prince Vijaya was the grandson of a lion. (No mention of whether Vijaya had a mane or ate really, really raw meat.)

According to the Mahavamsa, Prince Vijaya traveled to the island of Sri Lanka and married Princess Kuveni, a lady of Sri Lanka's previous inhabitants the Yakkhas. Vijaya eventually overcame the Yakkhas, and with his followers took control of Sri Lanka, becoming the first of the Sinhalese people.

The Mahavamsa says the Sinhala never forgot their origins: Sinhala literally means “of lions.” In the Sinhalese tradition the lion is the mythical ancestor of kings and a symbol of royal authority. Because, you know, the first king was a quarter lion and people tend to remember that.

[veganlittlemonster]

On one occasion the Blessed One was traveling along the road between Ukkattha and Setabya, and Dona the brahman was also traveling along the road between Ukkattha and Setabya. Dona the brahman saw, in the Blessed One's footprints, wheels with 1,000 spokes, together with rims and hubs, complete in all their features. On seeing them, the thought occurred to him, "How amazing! How astounding! These are not the footprints of a human being!"

Then the Blessed One, leaving the road, went to sit at the root of a certain tree — his legs crossed, his body erect, with mindfulness established to the fore. Then Dona, following the Blessed One's footprints, saw him sitting at the root of the tree: confident, inspiring confidence, his senses calmed, his mind calmed, having attained the utmost control & tranquility, tamed, guarded, his senses restrained, a naga. On seeing him, he went to him and said, "Master, are you a deva?

"No, brahman, I am not a deva."

"Are you a gandhabba?"

"No..."

"... a yakkha?"

"No..."

"... a human being?"

"No, brahman, I am not a human being."

"When asked, 'Are you a deva?' you answer, 'No, brahman, I am not a deva.' When asked, 'Are you a gandhabba?' you answer, 'No, brahman, I am not a gandhabba.' When asked, 'Are you a yakkha?' you answer, 'No, brahman, I am not a yakkha.' When asked, 'Are you a human being?' you answer, 'No, brahman, I am not a human being.' Then what sort of being are you?"

"Brahman, the fermentations by which — if they were not abandoned — I would be a deva: Those are abandoned by me, their root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. The fermentations by which — if they were not abandoned — I would be a gandhabba... a yakkha... a human being: Those are abandoned by me, their root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising.

"Just like a red, blue, or white lotus — born in the water, grown in the water, rising up above the water — stands unsmeared by the water, in the same way I — born in the world, grown in the world, having overcome the world — live unsmeared by the world. Remember me, brahman, as 'awakened.'

[featheatre]

Review my muse like a product // His title of Heavenly Yaksha is misleading. "The yakshas (यक्ष Sanskrit: yakṣa; Pali: yakkha) are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness." Morningstar would be more fitting.

Rood.

[linguisten]

Chintang

Linguistic Diversity Challenge — Regional Edition Post # 1 / 12: South and Central Asia

What is the language known as to linguists, and by the speakers themselves? Chintang, Chintán, Chhintange, Chintang Rûng, Teli

Where is the language spoken? Dhankuta District, Eastern Nepal 

How many speakers does the language have? about 3500; [...] highly endangered and [is] being supplanted by Bantawa, one of the major Kiranti languages (Rai 1985). In a rapidly increasing number of cases, however, speakers entirely give up their native language or Bantawa and switch to Nepali, the national lingua franca. It is likely that Chintang and Puma will no longer be spoken within one or two generations. (Bickel et al.)

What are some of the languages relatives and is it part of a contact area? Sino-Tibetan >> Himalayish >> Mahakiranti >> Kiranti >> Eastern Kiranti >> Greater Yakkha >> Chintang Relatives are the other Kiranti languages, expecially neighbouring Puma

Is the language written? If it is, with what script? If at all, it is written in the Nepali flavor of Devanagari

What is the language like grammatically? The language has a highly intricate verbal morphology with probably over 5000 inflectional forms per verb.  Several dozen verbal paradigms have been collected and analysed. We have performed a complete morphological analysis of the affixal system and the stem structure (compound and bipartite stems). The Chintang verb inflects non-periphrastically for tense (past vs. nonpast), aspect (perfective/simple vs. perfect vs. imperfective), polarity (affirmative vs. negative), mood (indicative vs. subjunctive), and agrees in various alignment patterns with the single argument of intransitives (S) and with both the A (actor) and P (primary object) arguments of transitives. The system is supplemented by a rich array of clitics (enclitics and endoclitics) and (both derivational and inflectional) stem compounds. The most surprising discoveries are (a) free prefix ordering (Bickel et al. 2005a), (b) triplication that is demonstrably not based on recursively applied reduplication, and (c) the marking one kind of imperfective aspect as the last morpheme in a suffix string. All three findings violate universal expectations and play a key role in the second year of the project. (Bickel et al.)

What is the language like phonologically? There’s a little Chintang spoken in this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXj2U-RvOCM

What made you choose the language? For a rather brief period in 2010/11, I have been part of the Chintang Language Documentation Project, now called CLRP

Resources:

http://www.language-archives.org/language/ctn

http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_28_05.pdf

http://endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1623/bibliography

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chhi1245

https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=item_949474_19 (Dictionary & Grammar) http://www.clrp.uzh.ch/language.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chintang_language

[arezarni]

The Mask of Yaksha 👹 ______________________ #Mask #Handicraft #ဘီလူး #Yakkha or #Yaksha #Mythology or #Religion #Sprits or #SemiDivine #Cultural #Belief #HandmadeShop #Travel #HistoricalSite #Amarapura #MandalayRegion #Capture #InstaPhoto #InstaTravel #CulturalGram #TravelPhotography (at Amarapura)

[deepinsamsara]

"The fermentations by which I would go to a deva-state, or become a gandhabba in the sky, or go to a yakkha-state & human-state: Those have been destroyed by me, ruined, their stems removed. Like a blue lotus, rising up, unsmeared by water, unsmeared am I by the world, and so, brahman, I am awake."

Buddha (Dona Sutta)